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Privacy Policy

Study Compass is committed to safeguarding your privacy. Contact us through our contact form at https://studycompass.co.uk/home-page/contact-us/ if you have any questions or problems regarding the use of your Personal Data and we will gladly assist you.

Definitions

Personal Data – any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.Processing – any operation or set of operations which is performed on Personal Data or on sets of Personal Data.Data subject – a natural person whose Personal Data is being Processed.Child– a natural person under 16 years of age.We/us(either capitalized or not) –

Processing is limited to the purpose. Our Processing activities fit the purpose for which Personal Data was gathered.

Processing is done with minimal data. We only gather and Process the minimal amount of Personal Data required for any purpose.

Processing is limited to a time period. We will not store your personal data for longer than five (5) years.

We will do our best to ensure the accuracy of data.

We will do our best to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of data.

Data Subject’s rights

The Data Subject has the following rights:

Right to information – meaning you have to right to know whether your Personal Data is being processed; what data is gathered, from where it is obtained and why and by whom it is processed.

Right to access – meaning you have the right to access the data collected from/about you. This includes your right to request and obtain a copy of your Personal Data gathered.

Right to rectification – meaning you have the right to request rectification or erasure of your Personal Data that is inaccurate or incomplete.

Right to erasure – meaning in certain circumstances you can request for your Personal Data to be erased from our records.

Right to restrict processing – meaning where certain conditions apply, you have the right to restrict the Processing of your Personal Data.

Right to object to processing – meaning in certain cases you have the right to object to Processing of your Personal Data, for example in the case of direct marketing.

Right to object to automated Processing – meaning you have the right to object to automated Processing, including profiling; and not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated Processing. This right you can exercise whenever there is an outcome of the profiling that produces legal effects concerning or significantly affecting you.

Right to data portability – you have the right to obtain your Personal Data in a machine-readable format or if it is feasible, as a direct transfer from one Processor to another.

Right to lodge a complaint – in the event that we refuse your request under the Rights of Access, we will provide you with a reason as to why. If you are not satisfied with the way your request has been handled please contact us.

Right for the help of supervisory authority – meaning you have the right for the help of a supervisory authority and the right for other legal remedies such as claiming damages.

Right to withdraw consent – you have the right withdraw any given consent for Processing of your Personal Data.

Data we gather

– Information you have provided us withWe collect the following data from you when you make an enquiry about one of the courses on our website. This data can include your e-mail address, name, phone number, state of residence and reason for enquiring about the courses etc – mainly information that is necessary for delivering you a product/service or to enhance your customer experience with us.

– Information automatically collected about youThis includes information that is automatically stored by cookies and other session tools. For example, your IP address, your browsing history on our website (pages you viewed on our website) etc. This information is used to improve your customer experience. When you use our services or look at the contents of our website, your activities may be logged.

– Information from our partnersWe gather information from our trusted partners with confirmation that they have legal grounds to share that information with us. This is either information you have provided them directly with or that they have gathered about you on other legal grounds. See the list of our partners below:

Publicly available informationWe might gather information about you that is publicly available.

How we use your Personal Data

We use your Personal Data in order to:

enhance your customer experience;

fulfill our obligations under law or contract;

provide our services to you

This includes for example providing you with other products and services that you have requested e.g. more information on the course/s you enquired about, getting the college who delivers the course to contact you with enrolment information etc.; providing you with promotional items at your request and communicating with you in relation to those products and services; communicating and interacting with you; and notifying you of changes to any services.

We use your Personal Data on legitimate grounds and/or with your Consent.

On the grounds of entering into a contract or fulfilling contractual obligations, we Process your Personal Data for the following purposes:

to identify you;

to provide you a service or to send/offer you a product, e.g. your request for more information on a course, or enrolment details, or to sign up for our newsletter and courses of the week;

to communicate in general about our services/products;

On the ground of legitimate interest, we Process your Personal Data for the following purposes:

to administer and analyze our client base (purchasing behaviour and history) in order to improve the quality, variety, and availability of products/ services offered/provided;

to conduct questionnaires concerning client satisfaction;

As long as you have not informed us otherwise, we consider offering you products/services that are similar or same to your browsing behaviour to be our legitimate interest.

With your consent we Process your Personal Data for the following purposes:

to send you newsletters, campaign offers and promotional updates via email and any other form of contact information you provide upon enquiry/opt-in;

for other purposes we have asked your consent for;

to allow our partners (the college that delivers the course you enquired about) to contact you with enrolment/course information

to communicate with you about products/services we offer

We Process your Personal Data in order to fulfill obligation rising from the law and/or use your Personal Data for options provided by law. We reserve the right to anonymise Personal Data gathered and to use any such data. We will use data outside the scope of this Policy only when it is anonymised. We save your billing information and other information gathered about you for as long as needed for accounting purposes or other obligations deriving from the law, but not longer than 12 months after you stop engaging with us.

We might process your Personal Data for additional purposes that are not mentioned here but are compatible with the original purpose for which the data was gathered. To do this, we will ensure that:

the link between purposes, context, and nature of Personal Data is suitable for further Processing;

the further Processing would not harm your interests and

there would be an appropriate safeguard for Processing.

We will inform you of any further Processing and purposes.

Who else can access your Personal Data

We do not share your Personal Data with strangers. Personal Data about you is in some cases provided to our trusted partners in order to either make providing the service to you possible or to enhance your customer experience. We share your data with:

Our processing partners:

Autopilot HQ – autopilothq.com

Instapage – instapage.com

Zapier – zapier.com/

Our business partners:

The Career Academy UK – http://www.thecareeracademy.co.uk/

The Career Academy Ireland – http://www.careeracademy.ie/

Online Business School – http://onlinebusinessschool.co.uk/

Concise Training – https://www.concisetraining.net/

Study Abroad Europe – http://www.studyabroadineurope.com/

Connected third parties:

Facebook -Facebook.com

Improverly – Improverly.com

Goole Adwords – adwords.google.com

We only work with Processing partners who are able to ensure an adequate level of protection to your Personal Data. We disclose your Personal Data to third parties or public officials when we are legally obliged to do so. We might disclose your Personal Data to third parties if you have consented to it or if there are other legal grounds for it.

How we secure your data

We do our best to keep your Personal Data safe. We use safe protocols for communication and transferring data (such as HTTPS). We use anonymising and pseudonymising where suitable. We monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks

Even though we try our best we can not guarantee the security of information. However, we promise to notify suitable authorities of data breaches. We will also notify you if there is a threat to your rights or interests. We will do everything we reasonably can to prevent security breaches and to assist authorities should any breaches occur.

Children

We do not intend to collect or knowingly collect information from children. We do not target children with our services.

Cookies and other technologies we use

We use cookies and/or similar technologies to analyze customer behaviour, administer the website, track users’ movements, and to collect information about users. This is done in order to personalise and enhance your experience with us. You can view our detailed cookie policy here: https://studycompass.co.uk/cookie-policy

A cookie is a tiny text file stored on your computer. Cookies store information that is used to help make sites work. Only we can access the cookies created by our website. You can control your cookies at the browser level. Choosing to disable cookies may hinder your use of certain functions.

We use cookies for the following purposes:

Necessary cookies – these cookies are required for you to be able to use some important features on our website, such as logging in. These cookies don’t collect any personal information.

Functionality cookies – these cookies provide functionality that makes using our service more convenient and makes providing more personalised features possible. For example, they might remember your name and e-mail in comment forms so you don’t have to re-enter this information next time when commenting.

Analytics cookies – these cookies are used to track the use and performance of our website and services

Advertising cookies – these cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are relevant to you and to your interests. In addition, they are used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement. They are usually placed on the website by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. These cookies remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers. Often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organisation.

Study Compass processes data as both a processor and controller as defined in GDPR.The Study Compass entity you as a user entered an agreement with when using Study Compass’s platform for user data as outlined in ‘how we use your data’ section. Study Compass adheres to the directive of 1995 and the GDPR as of 25th May 2018.

Study Compass has a data protection officer who is responsible for matter relating to privacy and data protection. The data protection officer can be reached at:

Webwise PTY LTDPO BOX 5589 Hervey BayQueensland, Australia

Contact Information

(a) by post, to PO BOX 5589, Hervey Bay, QLD, Australia

(b) by using our website contact form here: https://studycompass.co.uk/home-page/contact-us/

(c) by telephone, on 0203 693 3944

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy.Last modification was made 11th July 2019.

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